NCCU-WFU BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES BRIDGE PARTNERSHIP

描述(由申请人提供)：NCCU-WFU生物医学科学桥梁伙伴关系是一项通向未来的桥梁倡议，旨在培训北卡罗来纳中央大学(NCCU)生物系的硕士学生继续在维克森林大学(WFU)生理学和药理学系继续他们的博士培训。我们的目标是在NCCU创造和维持一个“研究环境”，通过NCCU的J.L.钱伯斯生物医学/生物技术研究所(JLC-BBRI)保持强大的研究计划，通过提高博士生对NCCU-WFU桥梁合作计划的认识，挑选有成功潜力的研究生，并通过实验室研究和与研究相关的活动来培养他们。我们在研究生中培养“研究性思维过程”的目标将通过在课程中提升不佳的认知技能来实现。我们的目标是使学生在进入博士培训阶段时处于先进的地位，同时减少社会劣势，将通过发展机构之间的教师研究合作，使学生可以在两个机构的项目的各个方面工作，并通过促进NCCU和WFU学生之间的联合项目来实现。NCCU-WFU生物医学科学桥梁伙伴关系建议利用NCCU校园JLC-BBRI独特的研究环境，向未被充分代表的少数族裔学生提供活跃的生物医学研究设施和HBCU社区的双重环境。为了实现这些目标，我们正在申请资助3名研究生助学金、学费、医疗保险、计算机，以及在第一年为3名硕士学生举办的年度科学会议，并在第三年增加到6名学生。我们还要求为一名项目管理员和办公室助理提供3年的支持，各占25%的努力，以及与此项目管理相关的支持用品和差旅费用。通过NCCU-WFU生物医学科学桥梁伙伴关系为学生提供支持将巩固NCCU和WFU之间现有的有效机构间伙伴关系，这种伙伴关系将提高美国下一代代表性不足的少数族裔科学家的数量，但更重要的是提高质量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The NCCU-WFU Biomedical Sciences Bridge Partnership is a Bridges to the Future initiative for the training of M.S. students in the Department of Biology at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) to continue in their Ph.D. training at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Wake Forest University (WFU). Our goal to create and maintain a "research environment" at NCCU will be achieved by maintaining strong research programs through NCCU's J.L. Chambers Biomedical/ Biotechnology Research Institute (JLC-BBRI), by increasing awareness of the NCCU-WFU Bridge Partnership program among Ph.D.-directed candidates, selecting graduate students with potential for success, and nurturing them through laboratory research and research-related activities. Our goal to foster the "research thinking process" among graduate students will be achieved by promoting level Ill cognitive skills into coursework. Our goal to bridge students into an advanced position when entering the Ph.D. phase of their training, yet diminishing the social disadvantage, will be implemented by developing faculty research collaborations between institutions so that students can work on aspects of the project at both institutions, and by fostering joint programs between students at NCCU and WFU. The NCCU-WFU Biomedical Sciences Bridge Partnership proposes to take advantage of the unique research environment of the JLC-BBRI on the NCCU campus by making available to underrepresented minority students the dual environments of an active biomedical research facility and the HBCU community. To achieve these goals, we are requesting support for 3 graduate assistantships, tuition, health insurance, computers and travel to an annual scientific meeting for 3 M.S. students in year one, to increase to 6 students in year three. We are also requesting 3 years of support for a program administrator and office assistant at 25% effort each, and support supplies and travel cost related to the administration of this program. Support of students via the NCCU-WFU Biomedical Sciences Bridge Partnership will solidify the existing effective inter-institutional partnership between NCCU and WFU that will improve the quantity, but more importantly, the quality, of the next generation of underrepresented minority scientists in the U.S.